House Votes To Delay Obamacare, Raising Government Shutdown Threat – 29 September 2013

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives has voted to delay Obamacare by one year, raising the possibility of an Oct. 1 partial government shutdown. The vote plunges the US into fiscal crisis for the fourth time in last three years.

House Republicans pushed through the shutdown threat by 231 votes to 192, linking continued government funding to a demand that President Barack Obama delay his plan to extend healthcare insurance to millions of poor Americans by one year. The vote went through after House Democrats and President Barack Obama refused to accept the Republicans’ conditions to keep the government operating.

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